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Personal System - 1,269 words
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Personal
Systems based on the style of living in Dubai.
Identifying all Inputs and Outputs of daily living
and tracing all sources of supply and charting the
movement of demands. The United Arab Emirates
(UAE) is enjoying strong economic growth as a
result of the rise in oil prices which began with
OPEC production cuts in March 1999. While the UAE
has a relatively diversified economy for a Persian
Gulf oil exporter, the collapse in oil prices from
late 1997 to early 1999 resulted in a decline in
real gross domestic product (GDP) of 5.0%. Real
GDP growth for 1999 was 9.5%, and it is projected
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Iraq - 1,606 words
, p.232). This statement however was countered by
analysts stating the war was more immediately the
result of poor political judgment and
miscalculation on the part of Saddam Hussein(Iraq:
A Country Study, p.232). Against the high moral
and fully equipped army of Iraq, Iran slowly
penetrated Iraqs forces and forced a withdrawal.
In more recent years, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
accused Kuwait in 1990, of flooding the world oil
market(arab.net). After days of failed
negotiations, Iraq invaded Kuwait on the 2nd of
August 1990. Four days later, the US, and other
member countries of UN executed Operation Desert
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Death Penalty - 2,025 words
Author: Clarke, Kevin. Source: U.S. Catholic v. 65
no10 (Oct. 2000) p. 27 ISSN: 0041- 7548 Number:
BRDG00052997 Copyright: The magazine publisher is
the copyright holder of this article and it is
reproduced with permission. Further reproduction
of this article in violation of the copyright is
prohibite A GROUP OF DISTINGUISHED ILLINOIS
CITIZENS, including former Senator Paul Simon and
attorney-novelist Scott Turow, did something
remarkable last August. They sat in silence while
some not-so-famous Illinois citizens talked about
capital punishment. The morning hearing offered
the American public a rare opportunity to speak
its mind about this peculiar institution of ours
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Death Penalty - 1,941 words
... kes killing fetal life less problematic
probably makes the state killing of murderers less
problematic as well. And vice versa. While we can
argue about causality, it seems naive to assume
that widespread changes in how people feel about
abortion would not eventually affect other
judgments about life and death. Surveys show, for
example, that supporters of elective legal
abortion are especially likely to support In an
earlier essay in America (9/26/87) I reported that
in 1982 Americans overwhelmingly supported capital
punishment, with 73 percent in favor and 27
percent opposed. Then, as now, the data on
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Oil - 1,158 words
The Importance of Oil In U.S. Foreign Policy
During the oil and energy crisis of the mid-1970s
Americans became painfully aware of the
consequences of the United States dependence on
foreign sources of oil. Unfortunately, research
and exploration for alternative sources of oil in
North America has not been pursued vigorously
enough to cease such foreign dependence. As a
result, in the mid-1990s Americans find themselves
in the same precarious position as they were
during the 1970s. The Persian-Gulf War in 1991 was
all the proof needed to convince the United States
of how strongly oil still influences our foreign
policy and international relations in general. Oil
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Oil - 1,112 words
... ng the 1991 Gulf War and the crisis that led
to it. Saddam Husseins attack against oil-rich
Kuwait proved just how vital the region was to not
only the United States, but to the entire world.
Oil is one of the main reasons we are in the
Persian Gulf indefinitely. According to Hoagland,
Saddam's threat to Saudi oil fields triggered the
significant escalation of stationed American
troops in the Gulf that has apparently enraged
Saddam, Saudi domestic extremists or whoever set
off that truck bomb (Hoagland, 1996, p 5B). As
recently as this year, President Clinton had to
deal with the threat of Saddam Hussein. And,
although he has retreated for the time being, he
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Better Schools - 709 words
It has been called the most beautiful temple in
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1612, Mumtaz Mahal was married to Shah Jehan, a
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Chaim - 1,295 words
Israel and the Future of a Palestinian State
Israel and the Future of a Palestinian State
Introduction: Video - A Search For Solid Ground I.
The Palestinians claims to the region A. Brief
oral description of Palestinian biblical claims B.
Description on how Palestinians lost their land C.
Outside influence that shaped today for
Palestinians A. A look at the land under Arab
conquest B. A look at Arab nationalism and local
population C. The British Mandate and its Effects
B. Arab Palestine, the Christian Community, and
State of Israel C. American and Russias foreign
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Cuban Crisis - 1,574 words
The political world is much like a stew, methinks.
It is a conglomeration of what has been, what is,
and what is to become. Since the dawning of the
atomic age with the World War II invention of
atomic/nuclear war capability, however, this stew
has taken on a whole new taste, a piquancy that
perhaps none of us were -- or ever will be --
truly prepared for in all of its possible
mishmash. No longer were the world wars to be
merely strategies, complete with trenches, tanks,
and troops. Since the Manhattan Project and the
dawning and dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man
over Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively, our
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Writing System - 3,890 words
... ognized only by scanning the text for syllable
boundaries. Compared to western writing systems,
the composed characters tend to be taller and
thinner. A line of Thai text can be considered to
be logically divided into four parallel lines: The
base line, on which consonants, some vowels, some
Thai symbols and Thai numbers are written The line
below the base line, used for writing lower vowels
and lower diacritics The line above the base line,
used for writing upper vowels and upper diacritics
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Waco - 1,092 words
Neither the Branch Davidians, nor the ATF, nor the
FBI, were composed of or led by stupid persons.
Yet at Waco, all of these groups made extremely
bad decisions. One reason for the high-risk,
low-quality decisions of the Branch Davidians,
ATF, and FBI is that these groups of intelligent
individuals could collectively make decisions much
worse than the individuals might have made if they
had decided alone. Many of the factors leading to
groupthink were present, on all sides, at Waco.
First, in groups that are vulnerable to
groupthink, group members tend to value the group
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Saddam Hussein - 528 words
Saddam Hussein was born April 28th, 1937. He was
born in a place called Tikrit District, in Iraq.
At the age of 9 months Saddam became an orphan, he
was raised by his Uncle, Khairallah Talfah, an
anti colonialist, who led an unsuccessful coup and
bid for independence in 1941. (Axelrod, Dictators
and Tyrants, p.145) Saddam has been the president
of Iraq since 1979. He was a strong believer in
terrorism, and he supported it as well. He is
chairman of the Revolutionary Common Council of
the Baath Party, which sets the government
policies. Using Iraq's huge petroleum resources ,
Hussein supervised a successful development
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Salman Rushdie And The Fatwa - 1,630 words
Salman Rushdie was seen by some as a famous
novelist with great skill at what he does and seen
by others as a blasphemous heretic. Rushdie was
born in June 1947 in Bombay, India as the only son
out of four children. His family originates from
Kashmir, so his first language was Urdu-Hindi,
though he also speaks English and the Bombay
language Merethi. Many of his family members died
when he was very young, the worst of which was the
death of his father in 1957. He grew up in a very
commercial environment where people were put to
work in their teenage years. He wrote his first
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Opec The Creation The Existence The Power - 1,937 words
Marshall Jenkins, a woodcutter from Culpeper,
Virginia, wishes the government could feel his
pain. He owns one of the thousands of businesses
that are feeling the pressure from rising fuel
costs and was forced to retire his three-ton
diesel shipping truck. I just cant afford to run
that truck, Jenkins says of the $100 it costs to
top off the tank, and I dont feel right about
charging more for a chord of wood (Maier par. 6).
With fuel prices at a record high, people like
Jenkins are wondering if the high prices are a
result of high demand or simply the result of
greed. The latest information points toward greed.
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Gas Prices - 1,655 words
How does that happen? I stopped in the morning on
the way in to work and filled up my gas tank for
$1.15/gallon or roughly $13 a tank and then just
ten hours later, the same gas station, the same
grade of gas is $1.10/gallon! If I had only
waited, I could have saved enough money to buy a
candy bar or a can of pop for my much-needed
afternoon sugar break! But, of course, it has
worked the other way in the past. There have been
plenty of times when I have waited until the
afternoon to stop and the price suddenly goes up.
I just cant win! I even started keeping a diary of
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Opec - 674 words
The Iran Daily reports on OPECs failure to
establish a good link with global trends and the
world business trends of Globalization. The
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) was formed when seven major oil companies
had monopolized the oil market in the 1960s at
that time the organizations primary responsibility
was to insure the rights of crude oil producers
worldwide. Today OPEC has 11 countries as members
and supplies more the 40% of the worlds oil and
maintains 78% of the reserves. OPEC has been
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The Cia - 1,368 words
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the agency
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United States, was created in 1947. The CIA is
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agency responsible for keeping the government
informed of foreign actions affecting the
interests of the United States. It was created by
the National Security Act of 1947 and is
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activities, as well as such functions and duties
related to intelligence as directed by the
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coordinated by a director and deputy director of
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Nuclear Nonproliferation And China - 857 words
This paper will examine Nuclear Nonproliferation
and China. I will also discuss the land, climate,
and history of China. At 3,705,751 square miles,
China is just larger than the United States.
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the majority of people live in the east, where
rivers and plains allow for productive
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United States. Monsoons cause frequent summer
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Mongols - 1,294 words
Twlfth-century Mongolia is as far back as a search
for their origins need go. A group of peopls
speaking the languages of the family called Mongol
who had long demanded the attention of Chinese
governments then lived there. Generally, China
played off one of them against another in the
interests of its own security. They were
barbarians, not much different in their cultural
level from others who have already crossed these
pages. Two tribes among them, the Tatars and that
which became known as the Mongols, competed and on
the whole the Tatars had the best of it. They
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Operation Desert Storm - 1,717 words
It is hard to pin-point a specific reason for the
invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqis. Some charge the
British of being unconcerned with middle east
traditions when they carved up the present day
Arab world (). Others suggest the Kuwaitis
flaunted their wealth in the face of many poorer
neighbors (). However, others think it was a
natural result of Saddam Hussein's "bully-like"
nature (). Regardless, there are several mishaps
that took place between these two nations years
prior to the invasion. These happenings are
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Shield, the events leading up to the war and
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